The next best thing to seeing the paterfamilias of jazz in person, this high-flying film includes "When It's Sleepy Time Down South," "Now You Has Jazz," "High Society," "Basin Street Blues," "Perdido," "Blueberry Hill," "How High the Moon?" "Mack the Knife," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Did You Hear About Jerry?" "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," and "When the Saints Go Marching In."

"One of the few complete concert performances of Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong … an international superstar and a living symbol of 20th-century American culture."—Jazz Times